Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-09-17


are lndcs about One at least Of US ought to
be dercntly dfesscl.s
Wo said no more; we were simply dunn |
founded, especially wien we c.nsidered the
artful way IN which Good had concealed tho
contents Of that box for all these months.
Only one suggestion did we make, namely.
that no should wear his mail shirt next bis
skin. lie replied that he feared It would spoil
the set OF his coat, now carefully spread III
the sun to tale the creascs out but finally
consented to this precautionary measure. The
most amusing part OF The affair, however,
] was TO sec old Umslopogaas astonishnnei,t and
AlpholIseN delight at Goods transformation.
Wien at last he stood up in oil his glory,
even down TO the medals on his breast. and
contemplated himself in the still waters Of
: tho lake, otter the fashion OF the young
gentleman In ancient history. whose mama
cant remember, but who fell in love with his
own shadow, tie old Zulu could no longer re-
:. strain his feelings
"Oh, Bougwaniv he said! s"Oh, Bougwanl
lsalways thought thee 'na ugly little man,
and fat-fat as the cows at calving time; and
now thou art like blue jay when he spreads
his tail out. Surely, Bougwan, it hurts my
eyes to look at thee"
- Good did not much like this allusion 10 his
Fat. which, 20 tell tho truth, was not very
well deserved, for hard exercise had brought
him down four inches; but on tho whole he
was pleased at Umslopogaas' admiration. As
Tor Alphonse, no was quite delighted.
"Ahl but monsieur has the beautiful air.
the air Of the warrior. II Is tie ladies' who
VIII say SO when we como to get nslorc..
Monsieur Is complete; he puts mo in mind OF
! my heroic grnnd"-
Here we stopped Alphonse. faU aai
As we gazed upon the beauties thus revealed
by Good a sphi. Of emulation filled our
breasts, and we set to work to get ourselves
up as well as we COULD The most, however.
that we were able to do was to array our.
Aselyes in our spare suits Of shooting clothes,
OF which we each had one, keeping on our
mail shirts underneath. As for my appear
ance, all the flne clothes In the world coulJ
never make It otherwise than scrubby and IN.
significant; but Sir Henry looked what lie is
amagpifccnt man In his nearly new tweed
suit, CATERS and boots Alphonse also got
himself up to kill, giving an extra turn to his
enorniNs mustachcs. Even Old Umslopo
gaas, who was not in general way given TO
the vain adorning Of his body, took some oil
out OF the sSaitern. and lit Of tow. and
kolisled Up id4hcud ring with it till Ii sl,enc
Nse Goods patent leather boots. Then he
put on the mail shirt Sir Henry had given
him and his "lnoocha,n and having cleaned
up lnkcsi kaas a little, stood forth complete
All this while, having hoistetlt the sail again
as soon as we had finished bathing, We had
been progressing steadily for tho land, or.
rather, for the mouth Of a great river. Pre-
s55iitiy--in all about an hour and q half after
The little boat had left us--we saw emerging
from the river or liarbor large number OF
OooIs, ranging up to ten or owelve tons burden
a One OIL these was propelled by twenty-four
ss0ars, and most OF the rest sailed. Looking
through the glass we soon made out that the
Tow boat was an official vessel, her crew being
all dressed in q sort of uniform, while on the
half deck forward stool an old man of ven
cradle appearance and with q flowing white
peard and sword strapped to his side, who
was evidently the commander of the craft.
Inc other boats were apparently occupied by
people brought out by curiosity. and were
rowing On sailing toward Us asquicklyas they
could. al - LIZ A = aE n
SNow for it,. said |. ayvhat is tho betting,
Are they soingto be friendly or to put All
end to us?.
Nobody could answer this question, and
not liking the wnrlike appearance OF the old
gentleman and bis sword, we felt little
nESlous
Jytthen Good spietlnschool oflippopotam
on the water about 200 yards of u.s. and sug-
gested that 1t would not ben bad plan to inn
lvsss the natives with a sense Of our power
by shooting some Of them IL possible. This,
uniuckily enough. struck us as good idea,
and accordingly VIC atonce got ont our eight
bore rifles, for which ~ still had few
cartridges left, and prepared for action.
There were four OF the animcls--a big hull, a
COW, and two young ones, enc three PARTS
grown. We got up. to them without din,
Guilty, the. great animals con.entng them
selves with sinking down into the water md
s1ising again a few yards farther on: indeed.
their excessive tameness struck me as being
peculiar. When the advancing boats were
Gbout GOO yards AWAY Sir Henry onc,el The
ball by firing ct the three parts crown youpo
,,ne. The heavy bullet struck it fair between
the eyes and crashing through the skull
Killed it, and it sank. leaving lonr troin of
blood behind it. At the same inoro,,t I
Gred at the COW and Good at the old bull
siy shot took effect, but not fatally aud
down went tho liippopotamus with nro.